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Shia LaBeouf checks into rehab, reportedly parts ways with talent agency

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Frazer Harrison/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Disgraced actor Shia LaBeouf has reportedly ended his working relationship with talent agency CAA, reports Variety. 

The Honey Boy actor, who stands accused by ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs of physical and emotional abuse, is taking a hiatus from acting and has since checked himself into rehab to treat his mental health.

Sources to Variety say CAA did not fire LaBeouf, but rather it was his decision to end their partnership because he will not be working as an actor.  Sources say the 34-year-old intends to spend as much time as needed to work on his recovery and, in order to do so, chose to step away from acting so that he could focus solely on recovery.

Sources claim he has been seeking treatment longer than five weeks and currently resides at an inpatient facility.  It is unknown when he will be released.

The actor’s representatives, along with CAA, have not responded for requests for comment at this time.

As previously reported, LaBeouf is embroiled in a lawsuit filed by ex-girlfriend, FKA Twigs, who claimed the actor “hurts women.”  “

“He uses them. He abuses them, both physically and mentally. He is dangerous,” the lawsuit states.

FKA, born Tahliah Barnett, claimed the actor “tormented” her, brandished a firearm while driving, and “knowingly” gave her an STD, among other accusations of similarly violent and controlling behavior during their relationship. 

Other women have come forward with their own accusations against LaBeouf, including Sia, who worked with him on her 2015 music video “Elastic Heart,” and his former girlfriend Karolyn Pho.  

By Megan Stone
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'Vanity Fair' gets first look at Jared Leto's Joker in 'Justice League: The Snyder Cut'

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HBO Max(LOS ANGELES) — (SPOILER ALERT) Batman fans rejoice: the Joker’s face tattoos are gone in the Justice League: The Snyder Cut. 

Ahead of the movie’s March 18 debut in theaters and HBO Max, director Zack Snyder gave Vanity Fair a peek of his vision for Jared Leto’s Joker in the film. 

Leto’s Joker appeared in David Ayers’ Suicide Squad, sporting a shiny grills in his mouth and tattoos across his forehead, a look Honest Trailers mocked as “mananorexic Juggalo.”  But for Snyder, the look is much more subtle — and scary. 

The black-and-white photos show Leto in a filthy lab coat, his face white but his mouth and eyes smeared with makeup.

While the look is quite different than in Suicide Squad, there’s no shade from Snyder, who praised Leto and Ayers in a tweet picturing the Clown Prince of Crime out of focus, holding up the Joker card to camera. “Amazing character you created,” Snyder posted to the pair. “Honored to have our worlds collide.”

Snyder, who stepped down from Justice League because of a family tragedy, after Warner Bros. tapped Joss Whedon to re-cut the film and re-shoot some scenes, tells the magazine his only regret was not having Joker in his version.  When he got the opportunity for reshoots, he jumped at the chance to use Leto in a scene that takes place as part of Bruce Wayne’s apocalyptic vision brought upon by the world-conquering villain, Darkseid.

“It’s Joker analyzing Batman about who he is and what he is,” Snyder says. “[T]he Jared Leto Joker and the Ben Affleck Batman, they never really got together. [That] seemed uncool to me…”

As for where the Joker tats went, Snyder says, “I don’t know if he’s wearing makeup…It’s hard to say exactly.”

By Stephen Iervolino
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Oliver Stone and Spike Lee share thoughts on 'Da 5 Bloods' and the "heroic" Chadwick Boseman

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Netflix(NEW YORK) — (NOTE LANGUAGE) As part of Variety‘s ongoing “Directors on Directors” series, NYU Film alums and longtime friends Spike Lee and Oliver Stone chatted about their shared history over Spike’s multi-award nominated Da 5 Bloods. 

Stone is not only a Vietnam veteran, but the Oscar winning director of the iconic Vietnam War films Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, and Heaven and Earth.  Years ago, he was going to make the The Last Tour, a script on which Da 5 Bloods was based — about a group of Vietnam vets who return there to find a cache of hidden gold — but admits he couldn’t crack it. 

“I never was able to solve it in a way that was satisfactory to me,” Stone tells Lee. “You solved it. You solved it…because you went entirely Black. The movie is a love poem to Black Vietnam soldiers,” Stone opined.  “[It] blew me away.”

Lee explains he was nervous to show the movie to his “brother” Stone, considering his real-life experiences in Vietnam when Lee was only 10.

“I’m a pipsqueak. I don’t know sh**.” and you were there,” Lee said. “Then you just gave me a great big, big, big love hug over the phone [afterward].”

Spike also mentions working with Chadwick Boseman on what became his penultimate film before he lost his battle with colon cancer. “I didn’t know he was terminally ill,” Lee says.  “One of the first days he worked…he had to do 100 yard sprints and it’s 100 degrees. If I had known, no way I’m gonna ask him to run.”

Lee adds, “Chadwick did not want to be treated differently…He did not want to cheat us or cheat his fellow actors, that is why he did not tell anybody. And I think it’s heroic.”

By Stephen Iervolino
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'Watchmen' director going down the Yellow Brick Road with 'Wizard of Oz' project

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Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) — Nicole Kassell, who recently won an Emmy for producing HBO’s adaptation of Watchmen, is going to Oz. Deadline reports she will direct an adaptation of author Frank L. Baum’s 1900 classic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 

The book has been adapted many times, most famously as the 1939 musical starring Judy Garland, which happens to be a favorite of the producer and director. An “exhilarated and humbled” Kassell said in a statement, “These are profoundly iconic shoes to fill, and I am eager to dance alongside these heroes of my childhood as we pave a newly minted yellow brick road.” 

Kassell added, “The opportunity to examine the original themes — the quest for courage, love, wisdom and home — feels more timely and urgent than ever.”

Kassell has previously directed episodes of HBO series like Westworld, The Leftovers and Vinyl., as well as Claws for TNT, which is owned by the same parent company, WarnerMedia.

The trade notes that unlike other adaptations of The Wizard of Oz, this one, which is being produced for Warner Bros.’ New Line studio, has the rights to classic Oz elements that others didn’t, like Dorothy’s famously Smithsonian-enshrined ruby slippers, because the 1939 musical was produced by Warner Bros. 

By Megan Stone
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Jameela Jamil sells her designer clothing to benefit refugee charity

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ABC/Image Group LA(LOS ANGELES) — The Good Place alum Jameela Jamil is parting ways with her designer clothing to help support a charity that helps refugees.

The 34-year-old British actress listed her luxury brand clothing with Vestiaire Collective, a site that sells pre-owned designer clothing, and will donate all the proceeds to the Choose Love charity.

Items that Jamil parted with were her beloved vintage Chanel wool suit, which she is selling for $1,000, and her Armani mini dress, which went for $50.

The Choose Love charity is a nonprofit that labors to provide refugees with essentials, such as hot meals, school supplies and clothing to help them rebuild their lives.

By Megan Stone
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